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America’s Most Popular Pastor Doesn’t Know The Bible
The Daily Caller ^ | 9-19-2014 | Tristyn Bloom

Posted on 09/19/2014 1:21:41 PM PDT by servo1969

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1 posted on 09/19/2014 1:21:41 PM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

The bible is just a prop for Joel Osteen.


2 posted on 09/19/2014 1:26:41 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyranni)
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To: servo1969

Yep, Osteen is filty rich... WHAT do I care???

Nobody FORCES ANYONE to subscribe to him.

HOWEVER, our Federal Government is also getting filthy rich (personally) off of us -and we have NO say about it.
Yeah, yeah, I know... let our voting do the talking...

Have we nothing better to do than bash Joel Osteen DAILY here???

I’m no way an Osteen guy, but sheesh.. He’s second only to obammy for negative articles here!

Again, NOBODY forces ANYONE to feed Osteen’s wealth or power. He will come and go - that’s GOD’s business.

We have bigger fish to fry.


3 posted on 09/19/2014 1:27:46 PM PDT by joethedrummer
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To: servo1969

Phony.


4 posted on 09/19/2014 1:29:35 PM PDT by Fido969 (What's sad is most)
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To: servo1969

I guess the Devil can also misquote scripture.


5 posted on 09/19/2014 1:32:09 PM PDT by Politicalkiddo (Power always thinks.. that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws. -John Adams)
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To: joethedrummer

Don’t hold back, now. Tell us how you really feel! =)


6 posted on 09/19/2014 1:32:52 PM PDT by dware (3 prohibited topics in mixed company: politics, religion and operating systems...)
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To: servo1969

I won’t even call that a church


7 posted on 09/19/2014 1:33:56 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: servo1969

Either he doesn’t know it or delegates his Facebook postings to an ignoramus.

Either way it’s not encouraging.


8 posted on 09/19/2014 1:36:30 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: servo1969

Yes, he makes gaffes. He’s human. Very few ministers are under the kind of microscopic scrutiny as the Pharisees have on Joel Osteen. When you find the perfect minister who never stumbles in what he says once in a while, I’d like to know who he is. Because you’ve missed something becasue that person doesn’t exist.

What the Pharisees don’t get, is God called him, against his will. He didn’t want to do this. There was no megachurch at the tine, only his pastor dad who had just died. After saying a number of times (to his dad and his wife before his dad died) he didn’t want to preach in front of a bunch of people (he’s naturally and shy introvert type that like to work behind the scenes), he felt God telling him he needed to step up.

Whatever formal training the Pharisees accuse him of not having, they need to take that up with God, not Joel. Joel was never planning on doing this, but unknown to Joel, God was. As a result, many including myself are blessed and have had their lives changed for the better, because Joel’s is not a teaching ministry but a ministry of encouragement.


9 posted on 09/19/2014 1:37:26 PM PDT by PapaNew (The grace of God & freedom always win the debate over unjust law & government in the forum of ideas)
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To: joethedrummer

Yeah, there are almost daily Osteen bashing threads.

Don’t like him, don’t listen.

Why not bash...oh I do’t know...Earnest Angely (sp?), Peter Popov, or any number of Catholic priests, bishops, Presbyterian ministers and others...Dolan comes to mind.

I’m not very happy with Pope Francis but I don’t bash him daily.

As you said there are bigger fish to fry....WAY BIGGER.


10 posted on 09/19/2014 1:38:15 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Stop the Stupid)
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To: servo1969
The Joshua one's easy to miss on; after all it's quite early on in the book and you could possibly get confused with the Moses raising-his-arms-battle. The story of Shadrac, Meshac, and Abdnego and the Fiery Furnace though? That's Daniel, which is after a long time has passed from Moses.
11 posted on 09/19/2014 1:40:18 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: servo1969

I have a BIL that has been chasing the greenback all his adult life.

It used to be AMWAY, but now it is Osteen.


12 posted on 09/19/2014 1:44:37 PM PDT by truth_seeker
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To: joethedrummer
C'mon, Joe, it's the FR way.

You find a mistake ... Point it out ... Ridicule him ... And then feel good about just how much better you are than him

Now, of course, you've gotta point out that it's all for the good of others, so they don't get led astray. And you gotta try to show that you're smarter, you know, cut and paste a bunch of stuff.

But in the end, you're justified in being all outraged and stuff ... Because you're saved and he's not, except you never say that. Too obvious.

It's all about who's in and who's out. And who's smarter and who's dumber. It's a competition.

13 posted on 09/19/2014 1:46:17 PM PDT by johniegrad
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To: prisoner6

Oh I see I made a mistake.

“Don’t like, don’t listen.”

Should be If YOU don’t like him don’t listen.

I listen to him for a few minutes a week and mostly enjoy him. Not going to send him money.

I also find nothing wrong with his daily prayers.

Guess that means I’m doomed.

So be it.


14 posted on 09/19/2014 1:46:34 PM PDT by prisoner6 (Stop the Stupid)
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To: servo1969; Gamecock
Mega-church pastor Joel Osteen may lead the largest Protestant church in the United States, but a recent Facebook post shows he might need to go back to Sunday school.

A Monday post to his verified Facebook page, Joel Osteen ministries, read: “God said in Numbers 11:23, ‘Moses, is there any limit to My power?’ He was saying, ‘Moses, you saw Me part the Red Sea, stop the sun for Joshua, keep three Hebrew teenagers safe in a fiery furnace, don’t you realize that I can bring water without rain?’ There’s no limit to God’s power.”

....There’s just one problem: According to the Bible, Moses was dead before Joshua asked God to stop the setting of the sun, and long before the three Hebrew youths were burned in the furnace.

Joel Osteen Heresy Gauge:
Joel Osteen Heresy Gauge

15 posted on 09/19/2014 1:46:41 PM PDT by Alex Murphy ("the defacto Leader of the FR Calvinist Protestant Brigades")
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To: Bryanw92
Who needs to know the Bible when you are a celebrity and sell your own books? < / sarcasm >
16 posted on 09/19/2014 1:46:56 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: PapaNew

Claiming to be a Christian pastor it is odd he avoids any messages that deal with the Cross and Jesus’ atonement and God’s Word on homosexuality, adultery, and idolatry. I guess those are in a subscription membership to his church.


17 posted on 09/19/2014 1:47:04 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Bryanw92

Beat me to it!

Fake, flake and a floozie.


18 posted on 09/19/2014 1:48:46 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (I)
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To: servo1969

Did Joel Osteen really read Numbers 11:23 word for word, or just paraphrased it?

Who is Tristyn Bloom anyway? Agigator? Atheist?

AFAIK church pastors whether mega church pastor or just big congregational church, the pastor dwells in the pastoral house that may not even theirs. Do the DailyCaller contributor really sure if it’s Joel Osteen’s privately owned $40 million house or it’s pastoral house?


19 posted on 09/19/2014 1:52:38 PM PDT by hamboy
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To: servo1969; Charles Henrickson

Please. God exists outside of His creation which includes the human concept of ^time^.
These separate items are well within the purview of God to reveal to anyone.
Although I do not agree with much of what Osteen “preaches”, this issue is moot.


20 posted on 09/19/2014 1:52:56 PM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration: The acronym explains the science.)
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